ABSTRACT

Alike to them, by Pathos or by Pun. 29S

o you! whom Vanity's light bark conveys On Fame's mad voyage by the wind of Praise; With what a shifting gale your course you ply; For ever sunk too low, or born too high! Who pants for glory finds but short repose, 300 A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows! Farewel the stage! if just as thrives the Play, The silly bard grows fat, or falls away.